Fixing Flying, Building A Mormon Utopia, And More Great Weekend Reads

How To Fix Flying

Digg Editions Morning · Sat, Jul 23

WEEKEND LONG READS PLANE SIMPLE How To Fix Flying popularmechanics.com Air travelers love nothing more than to complain about their latest flight. But modern aviation is an incredible technological achievement, and it doesn't have to be so miserable. Here's how you'll love flying again. ON A MISSION A Mormon Tycoon Wants To Build Joseph Smith's Mega-Utopia In Vermont bloomberg.com David Hall is snapping up farmland to bring his vision of a sustainable high-density community to life. The neighbors are horrified. A NIGHT IN THE LIFE Behind The Webcam With China's Live-Streaming Stars thatsmags.com A growing number of Chinese performers are using live-streaming apps to entertain online viewers, broadcasting themselves nightly to thousands, who comment and send money in real time. HIGH-FI Facebook Takes Flight theverge.com Inside the test flight of Facebook's first internet drone. TEACH A MAN TO KILL FOR A FISH A Fish So Coveted People Have Smuggled, Kidnapped, And Killed For It blog.longreads.com The Asian arowana's status among wealthy buyers has made it the object of a thriving black market. IN THE NEWS Ten Dead — Including Gunman — In Shooting At German Shopping Mall What You Need To Know About Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton's VP Pick GEAR WE DIGG | SPONSORED Want To Train Like An Olympian? Start With These Pants get.physiclo.com Physiclo's compression pants (designed with the world's first built-in resistance technology) challenge muscles, enhance cardio and boost workout results just by wearing them. No wonder the USA Olympic team is training with them for Rio. Use promo code DIGG25 to get 25% off. VISUALIZE THIS WHY EVERYONE SHOULD LEAVE NEW YORK How Much Space $1,500 In Rent Will Get You In The Biggest American Cities rentcafe.com Among other findings, $1,500 will get you over 7 times as much space in Memphis as it will in New York. BEWARE THE GREEN WAVE OF DIVORCE The Marital Status Of Americans By Age, Visualized overflow.solutions Charting the proportion of Americans who are single, married, widowed, separated and divorced based on age. LIVE LONG AND MEET A LOT OF PEOPLE Every Single Character Interaction In Every 'Star Trek' Episode And Movie, Mapped datascopeanalytics.com There have been a lot of different "Star Trek" TV series and movies — and a ton of different characters. This nifty interactive maps the relationships between all the characters in the different series and movies. FLY AWAY WITH US DOESN'T LOOK VERY SAFE THOUGH This Man Built The Personal Flying Chair Of Your Dreams digg.com Unlike this guy who obviously knows what he's doing, the rest of us should probably have some patience and wait for a more advanced model. 'BUBBA'S JETPACK' WATCH: Next Time You Hit The Links, Carry Your Clubs In A Flying Golf Cart digg.com Golfers are always trying to out do one another, usually with high-tech clubs or a nice polo shirt. This, however, is a next level way to show off. TRUMP CHANGE MAKE AMERICA FAKE AGAIN The Man Who Ghostwrote 'The Art Of The Deal' Tells All newyorker.com "The Art of the Deal" made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business. Tony Schwartz helped create that myth — and regrets it. THE PLAYER-HATER'S FALL Donald Trump Versus The 'Haters' nytimes.com Trump's usage of "hater" has the distinctive flavor of hip-hop parlance, in which it's not enough to simply note the presence of a hater: He must be condemned, then dismissed. THE ART OF THE DEAL ESTATE The Yunited States Of Yuge gq.com A journey through the very luxurious America that Trump already runs. BEFORE YOU GO DELTA HEAVY – 'WHITE FLAG' Milton's 'Paradise Lost,' Transformed Into A Surreal, 8-Bit Music Video digg.com Originally published in 1667, the biblical epic gets a Nintendo-inspired makeover appropriate for the modern set. The US is in a heatdome, which means it's time to go back to bed. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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It's Getting Humid In Here

The Best Time The US Military Detonated A Nuke Underwater And Other Facts

Digg Editions Morning · Fri, Jul 22

WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK The Best Time The US Military Detonated A Nuke Underwater And Other Facts digg.com Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: That one time the US blew up an atomic bomb in the water for funsies, Japan's cuteness obsession and video evidence of a bad water slide. WHAT'S GOING ON Watch Donald Trump's Long, Angry, Policy-Free RNC Speech The Highlights And Lowlights From The Republican Convention NBA To Move All-Star Game Over North Carolina Bathroom Law Hunt For MH370 Likely To End Soon The Secret Documents That Detail How Patients' Privacy Is Breached SMILES WE DIGG | SPONSORED Invisible Aligners Because Braces Suck smiledirectclub.com If you've ever thought about a better smile but were turned off by the cost and inconvenience of orthodontist visits, SmileDirectClub's got you. They manufacture and ship invisible aligners directly to your door, straightening and whitening teeth remotely, passing the savings on to you. ON AND OFF THE GRID ALL THAT POWER The Primary Power Source In Every Zip Code, Mapped metricmaps.org Coal and natural gas are still dominant, but large swaths of the country are already primarily powered by hydroelectric, solar and wind power. THE BEAT GOES ON The Man Who Spent 30 Years In The Rainforest Preserving The Music Of The Bayaka motherboard.vice.com In 2005, an anthropology graduate from Oxford University made an astonishing, accidental discovery: over 1,000 hours worth of sound recordings of the Bayaka — a hunter-gatherer community in the rainforests of the Central African Republic. SNAPPING INTO FOCUS Analyzing 67 Years Of Lego Sets blog.modeanalytics.com Lego has changed a lot over the decades — but how, exactly? According to a data analysis of 67 years worth of Lego sets, they've gotten a lot more colorful, a fair bit bigger and more. LIBERIA AND MYANMAR, TOO WATCH: America Should Really Switch To The Metric System digg.com We're gonna go ahead and say it: the metric system makes good sense and global measurement standards are a useful thing. BEAT THE HEAT WE ALL SCREAM 'TOO MUCH!' Extreme Ice Cream cooksscience.com A week at the Penn State Ice Cream Short Course, the oldest university-run ice cream workshop in the US. BE COOL, MAN Air Conditioning Is A Human Right time.com Texas, like other states, does not air condition its prisons — and by doing so, it kills people. BEFORE YOU GO THE DEFINITION OF 'SEA OF HUMANITY' Tens Of Thousands Of Festival-Goers Shuffling Left To Right In Sync Is Madness digg.com Thank god the entire audience at the Netherlands' Defqon.1 festival didn't try to "Reverse/Reverse" at the same time. If you need us, we'll be stocking up on ice cream and popsicles for the weekend. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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